Medical Surgical Instruments

There are multiple medical surgical instruments that are used in the field of medical and each is used for a different purpose.

The surgical instruments are divided into 4 types:

1. cutting
2. grasping
3. retracting
4. suturing

Lets talk about them one by one:

Cutting:

 

Knife (scalpel)

This is used for dissecting or making an incision.

A number of different blades are used in the scalpel and each has a different function
#10: general dissecting
#11: stab incision
#12: tonsil dissection
#15: plastic dissection
#20: skin incision.


Mayo Curved Scissor


Mayo Straight Scissor


Medzenbaum
Scissors are used to cut the delicate tissues.

Grasping

Curve Artery forceps

Straight Artery forceps

these are used as hemostats to grasp the blood vessels and arrest the flow of blood.

Mosquito Artery forceps

Used to hold delicate tissue or compress a bleed vessel.

Babcock forceps

To grasp delicate tissues eg: appendix

Dressing Forceps

To grasp delicate tissue while they are being sutured, dissected or excised.

 

Tissue Forceps

To grasp very delicate tissue, nerve or blodd vessel for dissecting, suturing or excising.

Sponge Forceps

to hold sponges or grasp tissue, transfer forceps.

Towel Clip

To hold drapes in place and to retract tissue.

Retracting:

Richardson Retractor

To retract abdominal wall and organs


Deaver's Retractor
To retract abdominal wall and organs.

Balfour's Retractor
Self retaining retractor to retract abdominal walls and muscles.

Doyen's Retractor.
Can hold back underlying organ and tissues. Specifically used to retract bladder during a C-section.

Suturing:

Needle Holder

To hold suture needle for suturing wounds.

These are only some of the instruments used for surgical purposes, for more instrument information dont for get to check the next post on instruments.